Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York had only about an hour to run one afternoon last week, but it was really only half over. In one fast slam-bang finish, the scenery collapsed, the players' masks were yanked off, and there, in full view of fascinated millions watching through TV screens, stood the skeleton of corruption, deceit and bribery in the world's greatest city...
...Algiers, where Third Republic parliamentarians were trying to give some democratic substance to De Gaulle's skeleton administration, Auriol's years of experience in the Chamber were invaluable. He became more than a parliamentary tactician. Long experience and his reflections after the defeat had made the Auriol of Algiers a wise elder statesman, who forced himself to think deeply about the fundamental defects in the parliamentary system he had served...
...skeleton should be somewhere an the University, according to E.C.A., having been brought from Paris some years ago by a faculty member...
E.C.A. would be surprised that Williams is having trouble locating the bones for the skeleton is a celebrity on the other side of the Atlantic. Mention was made of it in the well-known book, "Esthetique des Proportions dans la Nature of dan Arts...
Williams is concerned lest an international incident develop and is determine to locate the skeleton...